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It was taken from a compound at a nature reserve in Northamptonshire and driven into the water.

Efforts are being made to remove the digger from the Irthlingborough Lakes and Meadows nature reserve.

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The Beds, Cambs and Northants Wildlife Trust said it expects the digger to be removed from the Irthlingborough Lakes & Meadows reserve, after it was driven into the water overnight by "joyriders".

A recovery operation has been taking place today.

Cass Hindley, from the Wildlife Trust, said: "It looks like it will be removed any moment.

"Then we will look at the damage to the water and banks and see what clean-up work is needed."

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The judge who has jailed Courtney Flannagan for 10 years for the manslaughter of Paul Smith alluded to three outbreaks of violence:

• The attack in The Edge of Town pub in Northampton
• An assault using a bottle outside a shop in Northampton a year earlier, for which Flannagan was on bail, that left the victim with a fractured cheekbone and eye socket
• A 30-month jail sentence he received in 2013 for an robbery in which his accomplice threatened a shopkeeper with a machete

Judge Patrick Thomas QC said: "I have come to the conclusion that your behaviour, no doubt in drink, on three separate occasions - extreme violence without any sensible reason whatsoever - is the plainest possible indication that you are a danger."

Det Insp Mark Hopkinson called it a "tragic and extremely complex" case.

"Mr Smith had a serious pre-existing heart condition which he had been managing well for more than 10 years," he said.

"On the night of the assault he was out enjoying a drink with his father.

"Our detailed and lengthy investigation involved a hugely complex medical inquiry which ultimately established a clinical causal link between the assault and his death.

"I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr Smith’s family for their support and understanding during the investigation and I hope today’s sentencing helps to bring some comfort and closure for them."

Paul Smith died two months after being punched in an unprovoked attack at a pub in Northampton.

Dan Holley
BBC Look East weather

Isolated showers will die away to leave a mostly dry night with clear spells, and high cloud.

Staying mild, with temperatures falling to 11C (52F).

There'll be some bright spells tomorrow, but thickening cloud will bring patchy outbreaks of rain which will turn heavier and more persistent.

South-westerly winds will freshen and become blustery by evening.

Temperatures peaking at 21C (70F).

Northamptonshire Steelbacks take on the Birmingham Bears in their latest T20 Blast game at the County Ground.

Northants lie fourth in the Midlands and North group table, a point behind the visitors, Yorkshire and Derbyshire who are all on 11.

The top two teams from the group join the top two from the southern group for finals day at Edgbaston in September.

Live commentary from BBC Radio Northampton's sports team is available here.

Kris Holland
BBC News

The digger, which has been driven into a lake at the nature reserve between Irthlingborough and Higham Ferrers, had arrived yesterday and been left in a compound at the site, along with a number of cranes and lifting equipment.

The smell of diesel at the lake was quite overpowering.

The digger was being used to help replace a girder bridge near Rushden Lakes and build a kilometre of foot and cycle path linking the reserves to Stanwick.

Jane Pearman, reserves manager for Beds, Cambs and Northants Wildlife Trust, said: "I had an email from a local volunteer who was walking his dog at about 07:00 to say there had been some vandalism to diggers which had been left on a compound.

"They'd smashed windows, taken one of the diggers - somehow got it started - driven into various trees, destroyed the handrail on one of the bridges, taken it around a lake and then into the lake.

"Unfortunately there is a strong smell of diesel. It is not a good thing to be in the lake. We're trying to limit it getting any further. It's not easy, the Environment Agency have been contacted. The clear up is not an easy process.

"This land is all within the Upper Nene Valley special protection area - it's an area that has a European designation of protection for breeding birds.

"It's mindless damage to the nature reserve.

"The compound was fine at 17:30 last night, the first I heard was 07:00.

"We have divers on their way as at the moment only the top of the cab on the digger is visible.

"It's about 22.5 tonnes, so with the extra weight of water and suction of the mud it's not going to be an easy thing...especially with the reach into the lake as well."

Stuart Bailey
BBC News

A man has been jailed for 10 years after another man died eight weeks after being attacked in a pub in Northampton.

Paul Smith, 49, from the town, was attacked on 10 July last year, and died in hospital on 4 September.

Courtney Flanagan, 22, of Pleydell Gardens in Northampton, had denied murder but admitted manslaughter, which was accepted by the judge at Birmingham Crown Court at an earlier hearing.

The attack happened at The Edge of Town pub on Regent Square.

Flanagan also admitted three other assault charges relating to another man who was in the pub that night, and to a completely separate incident a year earlier.

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A 22-year-old man has been jailed for manslaughter for 10 years after he attacked a man in a pub in Northampton town centre in July last year.

The victim, who was 49 years old, died eight weeks later.

More details to follow...

It appears that the people who "joyrode" a digger into a lake also used it to damage fencing at the Irthlingborough Lakes and Meadows nature reserve, external.

Temporary fencing has been put up:

It's not known yet where the Hitachi digger was when it was taken, but it says Mac Ltd. on it.

Kris Holland
BBC News

I've come out to the nature reserve between Irthlingborough and Higham Ferrers where a digger has been driven into one of the lakes.

People have been posting on Facebook to express their disgust at "mindless" vandals.

"The lake now has diesel floating on the top of it. If that isn't bad enough this time of the year are young animals who that will probably kill," wrote one man who said he'd been out for a run around the lakes, which are next to the River Nene.

Recovery workers have told me it could take some time to get the digger out, as its caterpillar tracks are probably buried in the lake bed. But recovery vehicles are here, along with police...

Irthlingborough Lakes and Meadows, external is a nature reserve run by the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust.

Kettering's Charley Hull is Britain's number one female golfer.

At the age of 21, she is ranked 25th in the world, has won tournaments on both the LPGA and Ladies' European Tour, has played in two Solheim Cups and at the Olympics.

In a new column for BBC Sport, she provides an insight into how preparations are going for her two biggest golf events of the year (the Women's British Open and Solheim Cup), and a taster of what life is really like for a professional golfer.

Read it here.

Former Communards keyboard player Richard Coles said he had to escape the "hostile world" he faced.

Kate Kinsella
BBC Weather

A mostly dry and sunny morning, with patchy cloud.

Showers will develop later and some of these could be heavy at times.

Maximum temperature: 22C (70F).

BBC Weather has more details for you.

Kris Holland
BBC News

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BBC Radio Northampton

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